The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26

divorce to every sixteen marriages. In
Europe the rate is one to three hundred.
THE defeated Senator Van Wyck will
be remembered by the farmers of the
country for the strong fight he made
against oleomargarine in the senate.
You see that he is an anti-monopolist.
THE coal strike is proving to be
another exemplifcation of the fact that
when one class of laboring men strikes
it generally hits another class of labor
ing men.-Philadephio North Ameri-
can.
BERLIN, January 14.-Dear Cleve-
land: / see dot your man Matthews
vos rejected, amt it. Scnates and
Reichstags vos pig-hetted beeples.
Dey make me dried. BIsMARCK.-The
PHtSbTg Chronicle
EX-GOVERNOR FOSTER tells the
New York Tribune that Ohio repub-
leans think it will be the wisest thing
the party can do in 1888 to nominate
Senator Sherman. And yet large
number of republican papers in Ohio
favor Blaine.
OVER 5000 persons have signed the
temperance pledge during Francis Muir
phys meetings in Cincinnati. What
has st. John to show for his work, ex-
cept the dollars in his pockets and con-
fusion in the ranks of temperance
men?-Messenger.
THE governor of New Jersey in his
address to the legislature took occasion
to remark that the President was pro-
ceeding upon the principle that ga
public office was public trust" Curl
ously enough that new governors name
is Green.-Boston Journal.
IT is strange that the railroad COM
mission gets no work to do. Now that
it is in running order those who were
so anxious to have commission should
ventilate their woes and let the world
know what the row was about any
how.--Middlebury Register.
THE bill passed by the house last
week, for the relief of dependent par
ents and honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors who are now dependent
upon their own labor for support, will
benefit about $4,000 persons and the
annual cost to the government will
reach S6,000,000.
THE weather last week Tuesday
night was the coolest known for many
years in New England. From 300 to
45o below zero were the figures re-
ported from many places in Vermont
and New Hampshire, and Middlesex,
VT, and Canaan, n. H., reported 53o
below by a spirit thermometer.
A LONELY Skating Rink met a Tobog-
gan Slide the other day. How are
you feeling?" asked the Rink in dole
full tones. 81 am hunky," replied the
Slide, 81 am in fast company, and
making barrels of money" "Come
and see me in about two years from
now and we will condole together"
responded the Rink, 81 have been
there before. "-Philodelphia Gail.
THE Free Press we'll says: "The
Vermont department of the Grand
Army has never had a more attentive,
faithful and competent commander
than Major George T. Childs. He
hands over the department to his sue
cessor in condition of marked pros
itxr. ha ha ha1 in
by the comrades as one of the most adj
mirable presiding officers and best COM
manders that the department has had"
THE Cheeryble Brothers of Dick
ems have their counterpart in Robin Il
Allen WILDER of Hartford, Ind, who
agreed sixty years ago to have all bust
ness and property in common. Their
partnership has never been dissolved,
they have never had the slightest mis-
understanding, they never contract or
give notes except Jointly and they are
now rich, happy, prosperous, and
As some of the ablest lawyers in con-
gress have disagreed in regard to the
meaning and effect of certain provisions
of the interstate commerce bill, the
railways will ask for an authoritative
Interpretation of the bill so they can
live up to its provisions. The new law
does not affect passenger or freight
traffic carried on wholly within one
state, but applies only to the inter
change of traffic between one state and
another.
THE news that some misguided per-
sons are importing English rabbits for
propagation in this country invests with
added interest the report of United
States Consul-general Morgan of Mel
bourne relative to the ravages of those
pests in Australia. He says that the
damage by decrease of crops, loss of
rents, etc, caused by the rabbits in ten
years will amount to at least CD 900, 900.
They were introduced in 1860 for the
accommodation of sportsmen and have
literally overrun the country.
SOME years ago a southern Illinois
editor of an investigating turn of mind
interviewed " one hundred tramps
for the purpose of ascertaining their
political weaknesses. He found seventy
! one of them to be democrats, eighteen
republicans and eleven greenbackers.
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